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OpenSpace _ Zone Libre _ .: Masulin :.

Ecrit par: Julien 20/04/2003 11:54

Etre masculin, c'est... :

"Natural"--authentic, inherent, biological
Essential, fixed--there are no degrees of masculinity; one is either male or female
Dominance, authority, power; being on top
Hard, not soft
Phallic; penetrating, not penetrated
Thrusting, aggressiveness
Explosive, uncontrollable ("boys will be boys")
"Size matters"; the bigger, the more masculine
Irresistible to women
Being active
Enjoyment of physical activity (sports, etc.)
Enjoyment of the chase, etc.
Go-getting
Enjoyment of violence
Sadistic, not masochistic
Lust-driven; "brains in crotch"
Lustful but not seeking emotional attachment; sex but not love
Desiring (i.e., as opposed to desired); lustful, but not inviting lust
Seducer, not seductive
Polygamous
Warrior masculinity
Competitiveness
Need to test courage, power ("Are you a man or a mouse?")
Need to win; be better than others
Need to be seen to win: glory, acclaim, reputation, etc.: masculinity as a prize awarded by the opinions of others, especially other men
Maleness as continually in question, always in need of being proved, tested, etc.
Strong and silent
Hard, cool, unemotional
Egocentric: self-sustaining
Unwilling to speak of emotions
No crying
Bragging; voicing of maleness as key feature of masculinity
Courage, bravery, fortitude
Self-control
Control and discipline of body: not subject to desire
Control and discipline of body: ongoing achievement and maintenance of societally privileged appearance of masculinity
Invincibility; no pain
Meat; no quiche
Self-sufficient masculinity
Independence
Egocentricity
Outsider anti-conformist rebelliousness
Impatience with or defiance of limitations of convention, values of law and order, female rules of etiquette, good manners, taste, etc.; maleness as that which is restrained or repressed by civilization and social concerns
Not interested in neatness, cleanliness, order; no housecleaning
Fear of entrapment, containment
Non-romantic, non-needy ("Big boys don't cry.")
Non-nurturing
Group masculinity
Male bonding
Male homosociality: most important relationships are with other men
Misogyny
Homophobia; fear or repugnance at physical contact with other men outside of the context of battle or play-battle (sports); fear of the male gaze (homosociality as not homosexuality)
Need to conform to values of male group
Need of ritual reinforcement of involvement with male group--names, ceremonies, secret handshakes, etc.
Desire of the male gaze--attracting admiration of other men (e.g., body builders, models) for masculine appearance
Policing of unmanliness, etc.; category maintenance
Rigid, conservative, anti-anarchy or -transgression or confusion of fixed boundaries and categories
Closeting of divergence from group values, vulnerability, softness, etc.
Anti-intellectual (anti-geek, nerd, etc.)
Masculinity as a form of dress: certain colours, styles, forms of appearance, etc.; no frills, no pink, baseball caps, hairy and/or muscular, not pudgy or skinny, etc. Body-building.
Lack of interest in fashion or appearance; no makeup
Peacockery
Structural/ cultural masculinity
Patriarchal
Hierarchical
Binary oppositional: "us vs. them"
Colonizing
Keeper of secrets about rules being broken, etc.; seeing but not saying
Psychoanalytical masculinity
Oedipal concerns
Repressed polymorphous perversity, anality, homosexuality, etc.
Fear of and/or integration of anima
"He who bears the phallus"; phallus as signifier; "name of the father"
Fear of father, murder of father, etc.; masculinity as tied up in relationships with fathers
Gazer--not subject to the gaze

Ecrit par: Julien 20/04/2003 11:56

(Pour ma part, je me sens plutôt féminin là...)

Ecrit par: piotr 20/04/2003 12:25

Nan mais ça c'est pas la description d'un homme, c'est plutôt celle d'un primate !

Ecrit par: Arsenik_ 20/04/2003 15:37

mais les hommes sont des primates piotr

/me est deja exilée en Australie

Ecrit par: momo 22/04/2003 7:43

ben, biologiquement, c'est le cas .. on se classe quand même parmis les grands singes ... ( ou alors je confond avec certains membres de ma famille ... )
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m'enfin, apres une description pareille, je commences à douter du fait que je fasse partie de l'espece humaine ...
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bon, je vais chercehr les papiers de la soucoupe ....

Ecrit par: Data 24/04/2003 13:23

Qu'il est bon d'être Androîde